Author: Kate Millett

Quotes

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

- Kate Millett

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

- Kate Millett

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

- Kate Millett

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

- Kate Millett

As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history.

As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history.

- Kate Millett

Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.

Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.

- Kate Millett

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

- Kate Millett

Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

- Kate Millett

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

- Kate Millett

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